Late AK-47 Designer Reportedly Questioned Legacy

January 13, 2014 13:10 GMT

A boy holds his Kalashnikov rifle on the streets of the Iraqi city of Ramadi on January 6.

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Late AK-47 Designer Reportedly Questioned Legacy

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The legendary designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, who died last month at the age of 94, had worried about whether he was responsible for the deaths caused by the namesake gun he invented.

Russia's "Izvestia" newspaper reported on January 13 that Kalashnikov had written a letter to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church eight months before his death to express fears he was personally responsible for those his invention had killed.